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030415 160138144 viewsTarcoola, station nameboard original style, is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways situated 504.5 km from the 0 km datum at Coonamia. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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030415 172140144 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking west along the Central Australian Line, Trans Australian is the middle road with the loop rejoining on the far left in the distance. Tarcoola is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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216-24143 viewsMoomba, view of surrounding sand hills
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030406 110118143 viewsCoomunga, 227,000 litre concrete overhead water storage tank survives from circa 1936. 6th April 2003.
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030407 085902143 viewsYaninee, station yard overview looking south for the north end, concrete SACBH silo complexes, points, lever and indicator, train control booth and shelter visible on the left. 7th April, 2003.
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030407 100445143 viewsMinnipa, north bound empty grain train arrives behind a trio of former Australian National Co-Co locomotives with rebuilt former AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class ex 839, serial no. 83730, rebuilt by Port Augusta Workshops to DA class, leading two AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 830 class units 842, serial no. 84140 and 851 serial no. 84137, 851 having been on the Eyre Peninsula since delivered in 1962, to shunt off empty waggons into the grain siding. 7th April, 2003.
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030407 105044143 viewsPoochera, loaded SAR Islington Workshops built HAN type bogie wheat waggon HAN 46, at the head of a rake waiting collection. 7th April 2003.
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030411 110040143 viewsKimba, rail transport waggon ENFR 2, originally built as 40' flat waggon NRF 900 in 1943. Transferred to Eyre Peninsula in 1984 and recoded to ENFR in 1985. Scrapped here at Kimba in 2005.
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030411 110609143 viewsKimba, view looking south of the Ascom Jumbo style silo complex, truck discharge on the left, outloading spout and silo over rail, horizontal bunker behind.
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030411 141355143 viewsNunjikompita, aboriginal word for 'burnt hair', station sign attached to shelter shed.
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030411 154310143 viewsWirrulla, loading ramp located on the grain loop, south end.
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030411 160716143 viewsCungena, looking south at Port Lincoln end of yard across stop sign protected grade crossing for Dickson Drive.
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060108 2074143 viewsLock, grain train being loaded by former SAR 830 class unit 842, built by AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84140 in 1962, originally on broad gauge, transferred to Eyre Peninsula in October 1987 and, 1204 and sister 851.
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060111 2400143 viewsWudinna, ARG 1200 class unit 1203, a Clyde Engineering EMD model G12C serial 65-427, one of fourteen originally built between 1960-65 for WAGR as their A class A 1513, fitted with dynamic brakes and financed by Western Mining Corporation, started working on the Eyre Peninsula in November 2004, shunts through the yard.
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060113 2544143 viewsKevin, narrow gauge locos 1604, NJ 3 and 1601 take the mainline to Thevenard, having reversed train 6DD3 on the Kevin triangle as they prepare to load, 1600 class unit 1604 in Australian Railroad Group livery a Clyde Engineering built EMD JL22C model serial 71-731, originally built as NJ class NJ 4 and built for the Central Australia Railway in 1971, transferred to the Eyre Peninsula in 1981. 13th January 2006.
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130705 0519143 viewsLock, former Australian National narrow gauge 830 class locomotive 846, an AE Goodwin built ALCo DL531 model with serial 84715 built new for the SAR in 1963 and delivered to Adelaide Division on broad gauge, transferred to Tasmania on narrow gauge in 1982, then back to SA on standard gauge in 1989 and then Whyalla in 2008 on narrow gauge. In 2012 is was delivered to Port Lincoln, the last loco delivered to the Eyre Peninsula and wearing Genesee & Wyoming decals on former AN livery. 5th July 2013.
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030404 104048143 viewsPort Augusta Spencer Junction yard, RQKY type 60' container flat waggon fitted with aligned bogies RQKY 2690 was originally built by Perry Engineering SA in 1974 in a batch of forty five RM type container waggon, fitted with aligned bogies and recoded to AQPY type. Seen here with a Mayne Logistics 48' DRC 382 container on top of a 40' half height tarped load. 4th April 2003.
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030415 171548143 viewsTarcoola, at the 504.5 km, looking east along the Central Australian line at the western yard limit and radio channel change boards, Trans Australian line is on the right. Tarcoola is the junction for the TAR and CAR railways. GeoData location. 15th April 2003.
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030416 095122143 viewsWirrida Siding station nameboard. Located at the 641 km from the 0 datum at Coonamia and 137 km north of Tarcoola between Carnes and Manguri on the Tarcoola - Alice Springs line. GeoData location. 16th April 2003.
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030405 140546142 viewsKyancutta, yard view looking south along the narrow gauge mainline with the siding point levers and indicators with the Eyre Highway grade crossing and one of only two electrically lit signals on the Eyre Peninsula Division. The cast iron 'Yard Limit' sign can be made out in the distance, 5th April 2003.
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